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It's blunt, I now have a long beard (it's been blunt for quite a while). 
Also I avoid making decisions I don't have to. I usually find if I ignore things long enough the problem goes away. It's amazing how effective this is! 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: if I ignore things long enough the problem goes away
And how do you sneak past the hordes with torches and pitchforks that have set up a camp at your door?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I ignore them, of course!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I Igor[^] them!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Forogar wrote: Also I avoid making decisions I don't have to. I usually find if I ignore things long enough the problem goes away. It's amazing how effective this is!
I learned that many years ago!
Corollaries:
If I ignore tasks created by managers, the task usually goes away. And better yet, the manager.
If I ignore customers, they usually figure out what they did wrong on their own.
If I ignore my significant other, new problems get created and the original one escalates!
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Marc Clifton wrote: If I ignore my significant other, new problems get created and the original one escalates!
The trick is to do that before getting trapped. But be careful never to let them notice that you are ignoring them. Stay off their radar. If you ever tell them what you are doing (or why you are doing it) they suffer a meltdown and you get a lifetime dose of problems and escalations all at once.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Quote: If I ignore tasks created by managers, the task usually goes away. And better yet, the manager.
I have had this happen many, many times!
I even had an administrator type (not a manager, just a bean counter) who insisted I filled out a daily time sheet to show my activities. When I asked my manager about it he said, "Ignore it for now, just catch up with it later". Two years later the administrator and the daily time sheet idea both went away without me ever having to fill one in!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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At times it's also good to have a (non)problem ready when you want to keep managers off your back for a while. Not that this is in any way urgent, but it gives the manager something to worry about and to concentrate his 'efforts' on. And once you are done with whatever you did not want him to interfere with, you can also shine by reporting to him that you have done something awesome and by the way came up with a solution to the earlier 'problem'.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I've got an even simpler version:
If I ignore my phone problems never happen.
late last Friday 27 messages from one client - cleared them without reading (who needs grief on a Friday)
today dropped by for morning tea, no issues, no questions, and no mention of the messages.
(and my reasoning: it's my phone, I pay for it, I decide if I'm going to look at it.)
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I guess my troubles started when I promoted one of my customers to significant other. 
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Yes, there's a fair bit in it.
C**k-up is always more likely than conspiracy as our glorious leaders rarely have the capacity for conspiracy whilst even capable people have the ability to c**k up.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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There's also Democrat's razor; "Any action I don't like can only be explained by malice, racism and fascism."
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There's also Soapbox's Razor ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I take it that is a recent tweet? 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Sounds like Lampshade's Razor
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How odd, never seen that before >.>
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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I knew I'd seen the phrase somewhere recently on here in someone's signature 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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I have, but I don't think it's true. Think about how you screw people over. You don't want to be obvious, right? If you just mess something up, no one can tell whether you did it intentionally or not. They might suspect, but they will never know. Motives are the easiest thing to lie about, there is never any way to verify anything, the truth only exists in your mind, so people just try infer motives from results and there isn't any better way to do it.
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Interchange the word "stupidity" for the word "incompetence" and re-read it, if that helps any.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity."
- Hanlon's Razor
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Doesn't help. Selective incompetence is one of the main tools of office politics.
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"Do not run; we are your friends! Ack, Ack!" zzzzp!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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*Yodelling intensifies* 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Sequestered Keep - Old Medieval Tales[^]
A Bandcamp link this week.
I've been into dungeon synth lately, a subgenre of dark ambient music.
Spotify has very little dungeon synth, YouTube only has complete albums in a single video, but Bandcamp seems to be the place to be
The band name and song name paired with the album name and artwork say it all...
Imagine the soundtrack to medieval castles and forests, preferably with knights, wizards, fairies and trolls.
Or, as the band describes it, "Wanderer songs of medieval fantasy."
So put on your chain mail or wizard's robe and let yourself be carried away to this fantasy realm that's dungeon synth
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